60 
ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1933 
Table 35. — Number of containers of fruits and vegetables inspected and certified 
for shipment from Hawaii to the mainland, fiscal year 1938 
Month 
Bananas 1 
Pine- 
apples 
Taro 
Coco- 
nuts 
Ginger 
root 
Lily 
root i 
Permits 
issued 
July 
August 
September. 
October 
November. 
December.. 
January 
February.. 
March 
April 
May , 
June 
Total 
758 
256 
131 
085 
125 
046 
209 
431 
468 
132 
473 
531 
17 
301 
195 

2 
51 

7 
1 

17 

7 
178 
48 
349 
278 
239 
8 
4 
111 
74 
13 

119 
107 
17 
187 
420 
20 
26 
216 
174 
245 
102 
S7 
102 
103 
97 
152 
198 
156 
130 
159 
118 
92 
93 
118 
101 
107 
75 
95 
121 
110 
127 
136 
78, 437 
48,645 
591 
1,378 
1,633 
1,487 
1,274 
1 Bunches. 
2 This edible root (Nelumbium nelumbo) is also known to the trade as Lotus root. 
Note.— In addition to the fruits and vegetables listed above, inspectors in Hawaii certified 2,915 crates 
of potatoes, 12 crates of onions, 3 crates of asparagus, and 5 crates of gobo for shipment to the mainland. 
INSPECTION OF SPECIAL-PERMIT AND DEPARTMENTAL PLANT MATERIAL 
As in previous years, all plants imported under special permit have been 
inspected at ports of entry designated for such material. A tabular record of 
special-permit importations is presented in tables 19 to 22, inclusive. The major- 
ity of such special-permit importations have been, as in former years, inspected 
at Washington, D.C., and these together with departmental importations and 
distributions from Washington, including domestic plants entering and leaving 
the District of Columbia, are inspected and certified for shipment at the Depart- 
ment inspection house, in the nursery, or in freight, express, or post offices. A 
summary of the inspections made at Washington, D.C., is given in table 36. 
Table 36. — Summary of plants and plant products offered for inspection in the 
District of Columbia, fiscal year 1983 
Material inspected 
For- 
eign 
Domes- 
tic 
Fumi- 
gated 
Other- 
wise 
treated 
Infested 
with 
insects 
Infected 
with 
diseases 
Lots of seeds (departmental) 
2,883 
65, 606 
105 
847 
815 
4,035 
123, 169 
192 
8,820 
368 
4,178 
2,981 
68, 597 
50 
130 
306 
573 
30, 039 
139 
106 
240 
240 
1569 
4 
193 
34 
84 
Plants, cuttings, bulbs, roots, rhizomes, etc. (depart- 
mental) 
1249 
Miscellaneous unclassified material, other than plants 
and seeds (departmental) .. . . 
Shipments of plants under regulation 14, Quarantine 
No. 37 (commercial) 
271 
Shipments of plants and plant products under regula- 
tions 3 and 15, Quarantine No. 37 (commercial) 
Containers of domestic plants other than departmental 
(mail, express, freight, and truck) . . 
170 
Shipments of plants for distribution by U. S. Botanic 
Garden 
1 
18 
382 
5,336 
368 
338 
196 
94 
56 
67 
Shipments of plants by private individuals... 
317 
Interceptions of plants and plant products referred to 
Washington 
950 
5,336 
21 
Lots. 
An effort is made to inspect, in the field, plants imported under regulation 14 
of Quarantine No. 37 during at least two growing seasons to determine their 
freedom from plant pests, particularly plant diseases, which may have escaped 
detection or which were in such an early stage of development as to make detec- 
tion impossible at the initial inspection at the time of entry, prior to shipment 
to the field. Only the more recent of the importations shown in table 22 are 
still under the observation of the Department. During the year field inspections 
were made of imported plants and their increase, a total of approximately 
26,000,000 plants. As a result of inspections in 1933 and those of preceding 
